Enhancing & optimising platform performance [As a PM]

How to source, diagnose and optimise performance-related platform issues.

So I think we all know about or have come across performance issues in the past. If you haven’t, you're in for a treat because it can get very messy, very quickly!

Performance-related issues are almost like an afterthought of many young companies who want to scale as quickly as possible and take as much market share as they can as quickly as possible.

But in reality, as you start to scale your monolithic spaghetti monster, performance problems will start to seep through and your inability to scale operationally will become visible and will in turn limit your ability to grow.

So let's say you start to hear or see some performance issues on your platform or products, but how do you go about solving these issues?

The source

Response Time

First things first, you have to locate and diagnose where these problems are coming from. Scout is great platform which helps you monitor performance and regression issues in real-time (Not a plug).